Open Chess project delivers electric shocks for bad moves and costs $22 versus $600 commercial smart boards through open-source DIY design.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...

Imagine a chessboard where the pieces move on their own, gliding across the squares with mechanical precision, as if guided by an invisible hand. It might sound like a scene from a futuristic movie, ...

Chess is known to be strategic, analytical and intellectual. But what are the more obscure reasons that entrepreneurs should play chess?

Stockfish is a powerful chess analysis app. Play two-player games on the beautiful chess board, or get instant accurate analysis of any game. Stockfish will tell you who's winning and calculate the ...

Last year, my son joined the middle school chess club and began using me, a total novice, as his sparring partner. In chess, a player can choose from one of 20 opening moves, including moving a knight ...

TL;DR: In a surprising experiment, Atari 2600's 1979 chess game outperformed ChatGPT despite its 1.19 MHz CPU and limited move evaluation. The AI struggled with basic chess notation and made critical ...

Watch the announcement trailer for Passant, a chess roguelike game where you twist the rules and use unique chess pieces to change the game. Build your board and earn powerful chess pieces such as the ...

I went hands-on with the Millennium Chess Classics Exclusive (M828), and here is what you should know before buying it.